â€â€_Many congratulations to Gerrit Daubner, a postdoctoral researcher working in Dario Alessi's group, who has been awarded a prestigious personal long-term EMBO Fellowship.
Gerrit's research aims to elucidate the molecular mechanism by which the WNK kinases are regulated. WNK kinases are master regulators of ion homeostasis and blood pressure. They are capable of sensing changes in extracellular ion concentrations and control the activity of downstream SPAK and OSR1 protein kinases, which in turn modulate the function of critical ion co-transporters. The importance of the WNK signalling pathway is illustrated by the finding that mutations in seven components of this pathway have been linked to hypertension disorders in humans.
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Prior to working in Dario Alessi's group, Gerrit undertook his PhD research training in the laboratory of Frédéric Allain at the ETH Zurich. There he performed structural and functional studies of RNA-binding proteins involved in post-transcriptional regulation.
Congratulations as well to Lina Herhaus who recently completed her PhD research in the laboratory of Gopal Sapkota, and who has also been awarded an EMBO Fellowship to work in the laboratory of Ivan Dikic at Goethe University Medical School, Frankfurt, Germany.
Gerrit's research aims to elucidate the molecular mechanism by which the WNK kinases are regulated. WNK kinases are master regulators of ion homeostasis and blood pressure. They are capable of sensing changes in extracellular ion concentrations and control the activity of downstream SPAK and OSR1 protein kinases, which in turn modulate the function of critical ion co-transporters. The importance of the WNK signalling pathway is illustrated by the finding that mutations in seven components of this pathway have been linked to hypertension disorders in humans.
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Prior to working in Dario Alessi's group, Gerrit undertook his PhD research training in the laboratory of Frédéric Allain at the ETH Zurich. There he performed structural and functional studies of RNA-binding proteins involved in post-transcriptional regulation.
Congratulations as well to Lina Herhaus who recently completed her PhD research in the laboratory of Gopal Sapkota, and who has also been awarded an EMBO Fellowship to work in the laboratory of Ivan Dikic at Goethe University Medical School, Frankfurt, Germany.